After delays that lasted for months, the Adams administration’s Roosevelt Hotel welcome center issued its first debit cards to migrants residing in hotels on Monday, allowing them to purchase food and baby necessities.
The city says it will start with 115 households, paying each family of four $350 per week for a six-week “pilot.”
This program continues to raise more questions than the city has answered.
In December, the Adams team informed the city’s Housing Preservation and Development Department that it had to hire MoCaFi, a small-scale, minority-owned vendor based in New Jersey, and not consider any other firms, citing an emergency.
Taxpayers paid MoCaFi like it was an emergency, sending out $574,000 in late January.
But Monday is April 1st. So migrants received no compensation for the first three months of this contract, which accounted for a full quarter of the contract’s one-year duration. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot!
VISIT OUR YOUTUBE CHANNELThese three months, combined with the months the city spent last year negotiating its deal with MoCaFi, provided ample time for a competitive bidding process.
It sounds like a bad case of political nepotism, if you ask me.
And it’s not like MoCaFi has some incredible secret capacity that no other company has.
All the corporation is doing is giving the city pre-paid, restricted Mastercards to distribute to the illegal aliens who should not even be here.
Last week, when the mayor promised daring new gun-detection technology in the subways, he pledged that competing corporations may propose ideas during the next 90 days.
Why didn’t he invite banking and benefit corporations to offer solutions to help migrants buy drugs food?
How does the city choose households to participate in the debit-card program?
Why are these questions not answered yet?
A true pilot—to see if giving them these cards is less expensive than purchasing them food, as the city claims—would have randomly selected participants and a control group.
Without a transparent lottery selection process, the city risks partiality, as city or contract staff choose their favorite families or persons who, after weeks of observation, they believe are more responsible.
It’s because Democrats are morons, and they act like morons because they have never been held accountable for anything in New York because the entire state is run by Democrats.
If families can only buy food and infant necessities, as a top city official stated last week, and if the cards can only be used at “bodegas, supermarkets, markets,” why doesn’t the city simply purchase these items wholesale?
That’s probably because they have elections to win, and they want the illegals to remember which party gave them debit cards to buy anything they want when Biden declares a general amnesty before November.
The pilot’s goal is, once again, to save money because the city’s food contractor wastes so much prepared food for migrants.
However, core Manhattan, where migrant hotels are concentrated, isn’t exactly brimming with discount grocers and baby-supply stores.
Furthermore, migrants’ accommodations lack cooking capabilities and refrigerators, limiting the products they can purchase to save money.
Why doesn’t the city simply purchase diapers, baby food, cereal, and other nonperishable food items, store them in a central area, and allow migrants to “shop” for products there using a voucher? Because that would make too much sense.
Giving illegals $350 per week to go shop at Manhattan bodegas and buy the most expensive baby food in this hemisphere makes no sense in terms of cost savings.
Do the debit cards accompany the migrants when they leave the municipal shelter?
The city requires migrant families to reapply for refuge after 60 days.
However, the city’s commitment to supply migrants with three meals each day is part of its overall responsibility to provide shelter.
In other words, once refugees leave municipal shelters, they must also obtain food for themselves.
So, if and when migrant families locate their own housing after 60 days, will they be entitled to carry their debit cards? Again, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot!
If so, Adams has just given refugees a big motive to delay leaving city-paid shelters. Why would they leave if they had to then buy their own food?
A family of four that leaves a shelter, assuming that they also leave their debit-card benefit behind, will lose $1,400 each month. That’s what a US citizen makes at a part-time job, and they have to give these freeloaders money through their taxes.
If illegals will not lose their debit-card benefits when they leave the city shelter, isn’t the mayor essentially creating a new benefit that never ends for illegals who do not qualify for federally sponsored food stamps due to their immigration status or lack thereof?
This is insanity. You have to wonder when the people of New York are going to wake the hell up and vote these people out.
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